Step In Restaurant & Lounge

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score7 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 13, 2026 →
• address1309 Metropolitan Avenue, Bronx 10462
• cuisineAmerican
• phone7188220562

Is Step In Restaurant & Lounge clean?

Step In Restaurant & Lounge is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 13, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Step In Restaurant & Lounge?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 13, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧼staff skipping handwashingcritical
  Personal cleanliness is inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn where required. Jewelry worn on hands or arms. Fingernail polish worn or fingernails not kept clean and trimmed.
• 🧫equipment / surface issue
  Thawing procedure improper.

When was Step In Restaurant & Lounge last inspected?

Step In Restaurant & Lounge has 4 inspections on record going back to March 8, 2022, averaging 4 points.

Step In Restaurant & Lounge vs Parkchester

Parkchester runs 85% clean across 55 tracked restaurants — 44 clean, 5 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 55 spots Cooked tracks in Parkchester, this one comes out cleaner than 69% of them.

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How New York grades restaurants

New York City health inspectors score violations in points, and lower is better: 0–13 points earns an A, 14–27 a B, and 28 or more a C. Every restaurant is inspected at least once a year, and the letter has to be posted in the window. A restaurant that scores 14 or more on the first inspection of a cycle does not get a letter right away — it stays “Grade Pending” until a re-inspection settles it, which is why some spots here show an hourglass instead of a letter. Cooked only ever shows a letter the city actually posted; we never infer one from a score.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) via NYC Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated August 13, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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